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The Palliative Care residency is a coordinated one-year
training program that provides the trainee with a broad clinical experience in a
variety of institutional and community settings.
Rotating through these settings, the trainee develops clinical skills in dealing
with acute pain and symptom management situations, as well as the psychological,
emotional, and spiritual needs of terminally-ill patients and their families.
The trainee sees patients who have access to the full spectrum of cancer care
from diagnosis, to cure, to terminal care. Non-cancer patients with challenging
symptom control problems are also seen. Rotations include oncology, radiation
oncology, home care, as well as electives: the pain service, pediatrics, and
other options.

The partner institutions include the McGill
University Health Centre, Jewish General Hospital, St. Mary’s Hospital Center, and
Mount Sinai Hospital. All sites
have inpatient units and offer
consultation services. One site has a Palliative Care Day Hospital and another
offers home care services. All units work closely with community and
hospital-based home care teams. The trainee has the opportunity to participate
in planning for the provision of a network of home care services to palliative
care patients in the community.

This one-year program of added competence in
palliative medicine is conjointly accredited by the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada and the College of Family Physicians. Applicants must
have completed their family medicine program or their internal medicine program
or any sub-specialty. Trainees are expected to develop a scholarly project which
could include a small research project of their own or participation in an
existing research project. A literature review is a compulsory component of this
project.